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March Randomizer…Let’s go.

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Flying Colours – Jethro Tull
Lunatic and Fire-Pistol – Julian Cope
Storm of Change – Comsat Angels
Smash it up – The Damned
Angelica -The Church

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  1. Tell Me Where You Get It – Culture
    The Janitor – Richmond Fontaine
    Rogue Revelator – Oakley Hall
    Texas Rangers – Cordelia’s Dad
    Church Street Dub – Conscious Sounds

  2. Top ho! This is what came up on shuffle in the car on the way to the gym this morning:

    1. Toes – Norah Jones
    2. Southern Freeze – Southern Freeze
    3. Be Thankful For What You Got – William De Vaughn
    4. Funny How Love Is – Fine Young Cannibals
    5. Back To Africa – Aswad

  3. 1. The Frightened City – The Shadows
    2. Street Fighting Man – Rod Stewart
    3. Doing That Scrapyard Thing – Cream
    4. Here Today – The Beach Boys
    5. You’ll Be Mine – The Pierces

    For once I actually remember all of these and could hum them unprompted.

  4. 1. Snowy Atlas Mountains – Fionn Regan
    2. The Dark Is Rising – Mercury Rev
    3. Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.) – Katy Perry
    4. Where I’m Waking – Slow Club
    5. On Melancholy Hill – Gorillaz

  5. While washing up….

    1. Sonic Youth – Scooter and Jinx
    2. Michael Jackson – Baby Be Mine
    3. Paul and Linda McCartney – Ram On (reprise)
    4. Nat Adderley – Taurus
    5. Radiohead – Fitter Happier

  6. Here we go…

    1. HURTS – Blood, Tears & Gold
    2. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Mary Jane’s Last Dance
    3. Symarip – Skinhead Moonstomp
    4. The Style Council – It Just Came To Pieces In My Hands
    5. Big Star – Life Is White

  8. “Take It To Reality” – Alison Wonderland
    “Whateva Will Be” – Tribe Called Quest
    “Live From The Opium Den” – Justin Warfield
    “A Slow, Slow Death” – Los Campesinos!
    “Country Sleaze” – Goat Girl

  9. Come Pick Me Up – Ryan Adams
    Kill All Hippies – Primal Scream
    Gimme Some Lovin’ – The Blues Brothers
    Sweet Thing – Van Morrison
    Travelling Song – Quantic & Alice Russell

  10. 1. ‘This guy’s in love with you’ – Terry Hall
    2. ‘He stopped loving her today’ – George Jones
    3. ‘Emmie’ – Laura Nyro
    4. ‘I think it’s going to rain today’ – Peter Gabriel
    5. ‘Way back in the 1960s’ – Incredible String Band

  11. 1. Behind the Armory – Case/Lang/Veirs
    2. Waltz of the Friends – Roland Kirk
    3. Bottleneck at Capel Curig – Half Man Half Biscuit
    4. One Broken Heart for Sale – Otis Blackwell
    5. Ee-Ah – Sonny Rollins

  12. 1) CLAUDE FRANCOIS – Comme D’Habitude (original version of “My Way”)
    2) SIMON & GARFUNKEL – He Was My Brother
    3) VINES – Get Free
    4) AMBOY DUKES – Baby Please Don’t Go
    5) ELECTRONIC – Vivid

    (Weren’t the Vines going to be the Next Big Thing for a fortnight…?)

  13. The music app on my phone won’t randomize (or at least I can’t figure out how to make it do so).

    iPod #1
    Little Triggers – Elvis Costello (This Year’s Model)
    Ana – Rachid Taha (a Songlines cover disc)
    Shepherd’s Serenade – The Joe Harriott Quintet (NME “Blow-Up UK” Cassette)
    A Little Head – The Electric Flag (The Trip OST)
    Shadows and Light – Joni Mitchell (The Hissing Of Summer Lawns)

    iPod #2
    Sweet Little Angel – BB King (Top 100s Plus 1950-1959)
    Tea For Two – Carlos Bica (“Exploratory Music From Portugal” Sampler)
    (BABBA) Music Machine – The HeeBeeJeeBees (439 Golden Greats)
    Sabotage – John Cale (Sabotage/Live)
    Dvorak: Symphony No.8 IV-Allegro ma non troppo – BBC Philharmonic/Ginandrea Noseda (BBC Music Magazine Vol.10 No.11)

    Computer
    Leave Married Women Alone – The Jimmy Cavallo Quartet (Top 100s Plus 1950-1959)
    Step It Fast – Joe Bonsall (Floyd’s Cajun Fais Do Do)
    The Girl In the Car – Roy Budd (Get Carter OST)
    The Cowboy – The Kaiser Blues Band (21st Century Protest Music)
    I’ll Never Be Free – Dinah Washington (First Issue – The Dinah Washington Story)

    • I’ll use the same format then.

      iPod 1 (hip hop iPod)
      1 – Roots Manuva: First Growth (from 4everevolution)
      2 – The Game feat. Kanye West: Mula (from The Documentary 2)
      3 – Eric B. & Rakim: Don’t Sweat The Technique (from Don’t Sweat The Technoque)
      4 – Edan feat. Percee P: Torture Chamber (from Beauty And The Beast)
      5 – Dilla Ghost DOOM: Sniper Elite (from DOOM!)

      iPod 2 (er, not the hip hop iPod!)
      1 – Tim Buckley: Put You Down [Bohemians Demo] (from Tim Buckley: Special Edition)
      2 – Marc Almond: Bitter Sweet (from The Stars We Are)
      3 – Burial: Rough Sleeper (from Truant/Rough Sleeper)
      4 – Pink Floyd: Comfortably Numb [Live] (from Pulse)
      5 – The Rolling Stones: Almost Hear You Sigh (from Steel Wheels)

      iTunes (warning, also contains the wife and kids’ rubbish)
      1 – Wilco: Spiders (Kidsmoke) (from A Ghost Is Born)
      2 – Paul McCartney: Wild Life/Hi Hi Hi (from One Hand Clapping)
      3 – Michael Kiwanuka: Rest (from Home Again)
      4 – Roger Eno & Kate St. John: Days Of Delay (from The Familiar)
      5 – The Faces: Stay With Me (from The Best Of The Faces: Good Boys When They’re Asleep)

      Mmm, all three showed good taste, which is suspicious, and there are a few coincidences in the selections, considering there are 80,000 tracks to choose from.

      I finished watching Roger Waters’ In The Flesh live DVD ten minutes ago, the last song of which was Comfortably Numb. I have just told a mate by email that I am going to see Marc Almond in York next week, also saying that I wish I had got round to seeing Pink Floyd, Waters or Gilmour. 20 minutes ago I told another friend by email that I am currently enjoying listening to Michael Kiwanuka. Maybe there is some truth in that our devices are spying on us…

  14. @Mike_H that Sabotage/Live is a great album. Had it many years ago before I got rid of my vinyl first time round. Hunted it down on Discogs last year and it still sounds feral. One of my favourite live albums.

  15. My Girl – Otis Redding
    Bend Down The Branches – Tom Waits
    Summer Soft – Stevie Wonder
    Bullet in the Head – Rage Against The Machine
    La Foule – Martha Wainwright

  17. even the losers…tom petty and the heartbreakers.
    ready for drowning…manic street preachers.
    everyones a winner…hot chocolate.
    mars bar…undertones.
    oi oi oi…cockney rejects.

    FISH.

  18. And we are off; (computer version)
    Pixies – Gouge away from Timeless stars bootleg, Newcastle Poly 27/4/89. I was there. And so was the first great love of my life. With her new boyfriend. And she passed this time last year, and Monday would be her birthday. Whoa. Lot of impact for one song.
    Velvet Girls – Howling bells, from Now hear this Feb 2007 which is when I last played it. Actually sounds like my sort of thing. Girl singing over grungy guitar.
    The Polyphonic Spree – Night and Day – still sounds good to me.
    Jingo – Fever, Now Hear this June 2010 and also unplayed since then.
    Muse – Sunburn, from Q best of 2000. I don’t really get Muse, but this is ok.

  19. The Kinks – Big Black Smoke
    Madness – Cardiac Arrest 12″ version
    Mindbender – Should I Try
    Stevie Wonder – Summer Soft
    Blockheads/WrecklessEric – Clevor Trever

  20. Mine went..

    Editors – All Sparks
    Simply Red – How Could I Fall
    The Jam – Happy Together
    Ian Dury and The Blockheads- That’s what I Believe
    The Jam – Liza Radley

  23. Metallica – Last Carress / Green Hell
    Stiff Little Fingers – Can’t Believe In You
    Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott – Sundial In The Shade
    Sky – Toccata
    Fish – Big Wedge

  24. The Blue Nile – Body and Soul
    Arctic Monkeys – Arabella
    Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros – Forbidden City
    Kris Kristofferson – Killing Time
    Traffic – Graveyard People

  26. Pale Green Ghosts – John Grant
    She Loved Like Diamond – Spandau Ballet
    Can U Dig It – Pop Will Eat Itself ( best lyrics ever)
    Maggies Farm – The Specials
    Situation (live) – Yazoo

    Alright that

  27. From my computer, which has everything on it:
    1. The Deslondes – Those Were (Could’ve Been) the Days
    2. Yoko Ono – Coffin Car (Automatique Remix)
    3. Cream – Strange Brew
    4. Howard Keel – Were Thine that Special Face (from the Kiss Me Kate OST)
    5. Pete Heller – Big Love

    A strange brew indeed…

  28. Another computer shuffle, as I have just rebooted my i-pod with 382 handpicked choons for my retirement party, where I have been beseeched to keep it sensible, whatever that means. (Something people other than just me have heard and boppy, apparently. Probably not as in Charlie Parker)
    So, computer:
    Lafayette Waltz/Wayne Toups
    Closer to the Stars/Soul Asylum
    You’ve Got a Friend in Me/Steve Tyrell with Dr John (Toy Story!!)
    There’s a city/The Handsome Family
    Milkwhite Sheets/Isobel Campbell

    What, you want the party pod too?
    Don’t Go/Hothouse Flowers
    Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay/Aaron Neville
    Making Plans for Nigel/XTC
    I Don’t Feel Like Dancing/Scissor Sisters
    Jean Genie/David Bowie

  29. Funkadelic – One nation under a Groove
    Yes – Soundchaser
    Manfred Mann’s Earth Band – Father of day, Father of night
    Uriah Heep – Sunrise
    Status Quo – Backwater/Just take me

    Seventies – a – gogo!! How did that happen?

  30. Cluster – Avanti
    Blackfoot Sue – Standing in the road
    Allman Brothers – Jessica
    Blue Oyster Cult – Cities on flame with rock’n’roll
    Popol Vuh – Affenstunde

  31. iPod 1
    “Moped Eyes” – Super Furry Animals – “Dark Days / Light Years”
    “(I Know) The Trip” – Swell – “Too Many Days Without Thinking”
    “A Baby For Pree / Glow Into You” – Neutral Milk Hotel – “Ferris Wheel On Fire”
    “Going Down Slow” – Spiritualized – “The Complete Works Volume Two”
    “Gospel Plow” – Screaming Trees – “Dust”

    iPod 2
    “Alcohol” – The Kinks – “Muswell Hillbillies”
    “Victory Laps” – DOOMSTARKS – “Swift & Changeable: The Prequel”
    “Glendora” – The Downliners Sect – “Nuggets II”
    “Lovely Lady” – Rock City – “I Got Kinda Lost”
    “Good Times Ahead” – Mercury Rev – “In A Funny Way”

  32. Go on then, let’s have another go…

    “Colours Run” – Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
    “Water Tower” – Aesop Rock
    “Memory Case” – The Early Years
    “Get This Low” – Jedi Mind Tricks
    “Ansiedad” – Linda Guilala

    Bonus ball
    “Our Time Is Now” – RBX

  33. Tried it on my morning run. I got :-

    1. Gary Byrd vs Stevie Wonder – the Crown

    2. Wilson Pickett – 6345789

    3. Young Gun Silver Fox -Can You Feel it

    4.Foster the People – Pumped up Kicks

    5.Rico -Sea Cruise

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